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2024/2025 | 100% VERIFIED
What is the concept of "social facilitation"?
✔✔Social facilitation is the tendency for individuals to perform better on simple or well-
rehearsed tasks when in the presence of others.
Explain the term "cultural capital."
✔✔Cultural capital refers to non-financial social assets, such as education, intellect, style of
speech, and appearance, that promote social mobility.
What is "role conflict"?
✔✔Role conflict occurs when a person faces competing demands from different roles they
occupy, leading to tension and difficulty in fulfilling each role's expectations.
Describe "confirmation bias."
,✔✔Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a
way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.
What is the significance of "anomie" in sociology?
✔✔Anomie refers to a state of normlessness or lack of social regulation in a society, often
leading to feelings of alienation and breakdowns in social bonds.
Explain "operant conditioning" in behavioral psychology.
✔✔Operant conditioning is a learning process in which behavior is shaped and maintained by its
consequences, such as reinforcement or punishment.
What is the "fundamental attribution error"?
✔✔The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overemphasize personal characteristics
and underestimate situational factors when explaining someone else's behavior.
,Describe the concept of "groupthink."
✔✔Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon where the desire for harmony and conformity
within a group leads to irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcomes.
What does "social stratification" refer to?
✔✔Social stratification refers to the hierarchical arrangement of individuals in a society based
on factors like wealth, power, and social status.
Explain the difference between "prejudice" and "discrimination."
✔✔Prejudice refers to preconceived, often negative, attitudes or feelings toward a group, while
discrimination involves actions or behaviors that unfairly disadvantage members of that group.
What is "cognitive dissonance"?
, ✔✔Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort experienced when an individual holds
two or more contradictory beliefs, values, or attitudes, leading to a change in one of them to
reduce the discomfort.
Explain the term "stigma."
✔✔Stigma refers to a strong, negative association or disapproval attached to a person or group
based on perceived deviance from societal norms, often resulting in discrimination and social
exclusion.
What is "ethnocentrism"?
✔✔Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view one's own culture as superior to others and to judge
other cultures by the standards of one's own.
Describe the "looking-glass self" theory.
✔✔The looking-glass self is a concept that suggests an individual's self-concept is shaped by
how they believe others perceive them, leading to a reflective process of self-evaluation.
2024/2025 | 100% VERIFIED
What is the concept of "social facilitation"?
✔✔Social facilitation is the tendency for individuals to perform better on simple or well-
rehearsed tasks when in the presence of others.
Explain the term "cultural capital."
✔✔Cultural capital refers to non-financial social assets, such as education, intellect, style of
speech, and appearance, that promote social mobility.
What is "role conflict"?
✔✔Role conflict occurs when a person faces competing demands from different roles they
occupy, leading to tension and difficulty in fulfilling each role's expectations.
Describe "confirmation bias."
,✔✔Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a
way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.
What is the significance of "anomie" in sociology?
✔✔Anomie refers to a state of normlessness or lack of social regulation in a society, often
leading to feelings of alienation and breakdowns in social bonds.
Explain "operant conditioning" in behavioral psychology.
✔✔Operant conditioning is a learning process in which behavior is shaped and maintained by its
consequences, such as reinforcement or punishment.
What is the "fundamental attribution error"?
✔✔The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to overemphasize personal characteristics
and underestimate situational factors when explaining someone else's behavior.
,Describe the concept of "groupthink."
✔✔Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon where the desire for harmony and conformity
within a group leads to irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcomes.
What does "social stratification" refer to?
✔✔Social stratification refers to the hierarchical arrangement of individuals in a society based
on factors like wealth, power, and social status.
Explain the difference between "prejudice" and "discrimination."
✔✔Prejudice refers to preconceived, often negative, attitudes or feelings toward a group, while
discrimination involves actions or behaviors that unfairly disadvantage members of that group.
What is "cognitive dissonance"?
, ✔✔Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort experienced when an individual holds
two or more contradictory beliefs, values, or attitudes, leading to a change in one of them to
reduce the discomfort.
Explain the term "stigma."
✔✔Stigma refers to a strong, negative association or disapproval attached to a person or group
based on perceived deviance from societal norms, often resulting in discrimination and social
exclusion.
What is "ethnocentrism"?
✔✔Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view one's own culture as superior to others and to judge
other cultures by the standards of one's own.
Describe the "looking-glass self" theory.
✔✔The looking-glass self is a concept that suggests an individual's self-concept is shaped by
how they believe others perceive them, leading to a reflective process of self-evaluation.
